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Meet Your Maker: Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research
|As part of our Hi-Fi+ Guide to Audio Cables & Power Products 2017 (available as a free download online at hifiplus.com/buyers_guides/6/) we spoke to Caelin Gabriel of Shunyata Research about his discoveries in cable and ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards: Accessories and Power Products
|Accessory Vicoustic Multifuser DC 2 The Portuguese firm Vicoustic aims to “provide the best products for acoustic treatment” with the goal of “enhancing rooms for great sound combined with the best possible design.” A fine ...read more -
Gutwire Perfect Ground grounding cable
|OK, I need to admit to some deep bias against this product from the outset. Try as I might, I just can’t get my head around the concept of something with a 13A mains plug ...read more -
IsoTek EVO 3 Genesis One power regenerator/EVO 3 Titan One power conditioner
|IsoTek has made the whole subject of power conditioning and regeneration more understandable with the launch of its EVO3 Titan One and EVO3 Genesis One products. Forming a core part of the company’s penultimate Mosaic ...read more -
Audioplan Powerstar SIII, Powerplant 10, and Finefilter S power products
|Audioplan is a long-standing German company, known for its loudspeakers, cables, and power products. In the early 1990s, when the British audio world was going through one of its insular phases, Audioplan was one of ...read more -
Exclusive Munich Preview: Nordost QKORE grounding system
|Sometimes we as journalists are privy to items way prior to their launch. Such is the case with Nordost’s QKORE trio of ground units. I was told about these at CES this year, but was ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Cables, Power, and Accessories
|Analogue Audio Cable of the Year Chord Sarum Super ARAY Until the recent launch of ChordMusic, Sarum in all its guises was Chord’s top cable. The latest version – Super ARAY – uses a tuned ...read more -
Torus Power TOT AVR power conditioner
|Of all the reviews I have ever had to write, none were as simple to write as this one. The Torus Power TOT AVR UK toroidal isolation power transformer is basically a whopping great big ...read more -
Synergistic Research system tuning (Part 2)
|Last month, we discussed the first of a two-part feature on Synergistic Research’s innovative system tuning components. At that point, we began by discussing the company’s Unified Energy Field system. The next step was to ...read more -
Vertex AQ Aneto DC Offset blocker
|A company like Vertex AQ has so many entry-points on its ‘Systematic Approach’ pathway that sometimes it’s difficult to know precisely where to start. However, in systems with a specific hum or buzzing issue, that ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Products of the Year: Ancilliary components
|Accessory of the Year Joint winner: Townshend Seismic Podiums Townshend Audio has been concerned with low-frequency resonance in audio systems for years, but the company’s previous attempts at a ‘fix’ have been difficult for domestic ...read more -
Gigawatt PC-4 EVO power conditioner
|Not satisfied with taking over the UK building trade, Poland now has its sights set on your audio system, and Gigawatt, with its range of power products, is in the vanguard. In 1998, Adam Schubert ...read more -
IsoTek EVO3 Mosaic Genesis
|Power regeneration is a big thing among most serious audiophiles, but is quietly all but ignored in the UK. IsoTek’s EVO3 Mosaic Genesis is on a one‑regenerator mission to prove us Limeys wrong. The AC ...read more -
Vertex AQ Pico Grounding Blocks
|Any discussion of the Pico by Vertex AQ is ultimately as much about the philosophy of listening, as it is about audio electronics. The Pico blocks (and for that matter, the Jaya power filters) are ...read more -
PS Audio P5 Power Plant
|PS Audio is a Colorado-based company that was founded 40 years ago, and has made everything from DACs to preamps in that time. It still has a commanding reputation in digital audio and more recently ...read more